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2011 Fall Western Section Meeting
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
October 22-23, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1075

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Saturday October 22, 2011

• Saturday October 22, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Room 228, JWB John Widtsoe Building
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Mathematics Department Office Room 233, JWB John Widtsoe Building
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, I
  Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-commutative worlds and discrete physics.
    Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1075-81-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homology of distributive lattices: splitting chain complexes.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UG
    Krzysztof Putyra, Columbia University
    (1075-57-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homology of distributive lattices: Mayer-Vietoris type sequences.
    Krzysztof K Putyra*, Columbia University
    Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University & Gdansk University
    (1075-18-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homology of a small category with functor coefficients and barycentric subdivision.
    Jing Wang*, George Washington University
    (1075-57-127)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Matching problems with compact externalities: a stability analysis.
    Simina Branzei*, Aarhus University
    Tomasz Michalak, University of Warsaw
    Talal Rahwan, University of Southampton
    Kate Larson, University of Waterloo
    Nicholas Jennings, University of Southampton
    (1075-68-58)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Celestial and Geometric Mechanics, I
  Room 208, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Lennard Bakker, Brigham Young University bakker@math.byu.edu
  Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Minimizing orbits in the equal mass 3-body problem as seen on the shape sphere.
    Elizabeth Zollinger*, Hiram College
    (1075-70-100)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A new family of linearly stable periodic simultaneous binary collision orbits in the two-dimensional four-body problem.
    Skyler C Simmons*, Brigham Young University, Provo UT
    (1075-70-70)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Golden ratio and super central configurations of $N$-body problem.
    Zhifu Xie*, Virginia State University
    (1075-37-39)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 320, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Chin-Yi Jean Chan, Central Michigan University chan1cj@cmich.edu
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homological invariants of modules over contracting endomorphisms.
    Luchezar L Avramov, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Melvin Hochster, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Srikanth B Iyengar*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Yongwei Yao, Georgia State University, Atlanta
    (1075-13-122)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Duality for Koszul homology over Gorenstein rings.
    Claudia Miller*, Syracuse University
    Hamid Rahmati, Syracuse University
    Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
    (1075-13-193)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Building modules over a local ring from its singular locus.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    Jesse Burke, University of Bielefeld
    (1075-13-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the index of numerical semigroup rings of embedding dimension three.
    Oana Veliche*, Northeastern University
    (1075-13-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of commutative algebra to problems in linear algebra.
    Chris Peterson*, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University
    (1075-13-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Implementation of Kumar's correspondence.
    Hirotachi Abo*, University of Idaho
    Chris Peterson, Colorado State University
    (1075-13-140)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, I
  Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
  Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
  Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sasaki Ricci flow and compact Sasaki manifolds with positive transverse bisectional curvature.
    Weiyong He*, University of Oregon
    (1075-53-60)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Prescribed Ricci curvature on a solid torus.
    Artem Pulemotov*, The University of Chicago
    (1075-53-08)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curvature pinching and singularities of the Ricci flow.
    Xiaodong Cao*, Cornell University
    (1075-53-141)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Dispersive Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 320, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa xiaozhang@math.uiowa.edu
  Monica Visan, University of California Los Angeles
  Betsy Stovall, University of California Los Angeles
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Oscillatory integrals related to eigenfunction and Strichartz estimates on compact manifolds.
    Zaher Hani*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1075-42-131)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Strichartz and local smoothing estimates in exterior domains.
    Matthew D Blair*, University of New Mexico
    (1075-35-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dispersive estimates for Schrödinger operators in dimension two with obstructions at zero energy.
    M Burak Erdo\smash{ğ}an, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    William R Green*, Eastern Illinois University
    (1075-35-21)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Hypergeometric Functions and Differential Equations, I
  Room 323, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Laura F. Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christine Berkesch, Stockholm University cberkesc@math.su.se
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Composition series for $A$-hypergeometric $D$-modules.
    Alan C Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University
    Steven Sperber, University of Minnesota
    (1075-33-197)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hypergeometric systems and singularities.
    Uli Walther*, Purdue University
    (1075-14-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The better behaved version of the GKZ hypergeometric system.
    Lev A Borisov, Rutgers University
    R Paul Horja*, Oklahoma State University
    (1075-14-206)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems and Homogenization, I
  Room 130, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Elena Cherkaev, University of Utah elena@math.utah.edu
  Fernando Guevara Vasquez, University of Utah fguevara@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Two-parameter integral representation formula for the effective elastic moduli of two-phase composites.
    M. Yvonne Ou*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware,
    (1075-74-126)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    From homogenization with non separated scales to discrete geometric structures in inverse homogenization.
    Houman Owhadi*, Caltech
    (1075-35-46)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homogenization of a nonlocal electrostatic equation.
    Niklas Wellander*, Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI and Lund University
    (1075-35-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Deconvolution closure for spatially averaged dynamics of particle systems.
    Alexander Panchenko*, Washington State University
    (1075-70-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inverse born series for the Calderon problem.
    Shari Moskow*, Drexel University
    (1075-35-205)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Numerical Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 120, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
  Shue-Sum Chow, Brigham Young University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Numerical implementation of volatility boundary conditions in stochastic volatility models.
    Jingyi Zhu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1075-35-232)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite element techniques for prefractal problems.
    Emily J Evans*, Brigham Young University
    (1075-35-188)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximating Indefinite Convolutions.
    Frank Stenger*, University of Utah
    (1075-65-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numerical analysis for the relaxation of a nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation.
    Jianlong Han, Southern Utah University
    Sarah M Brown*, Southern Utah University
    (1075-65-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parallel fluid-structure interaction algorithms for simulation of blood flow in artery.
    Xiao-Chuan Cai*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1075-65-94)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Reductive Groups and Hecke Algebras, I
  Room 219, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Dan Ciubotaru, University of Utah ciubo@math.utah.edu
  Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University krilcath@isu.edu
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Weil representation and Hecke algebras for metaplectic groups.
    Gordan Savin*, University of Utah
    Wee teck Gan, National University of Singapore
    (1075-22-22)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized exponents.
    Bogdan Ion*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1075-17-40)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Absolute Galois group computation.
    Christopher L Kocs*, University of Utah
    (1075-05-190)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generalizing Springer's representation to Hessenberg varieties.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    (1075-05-241)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A skein theoretic approach to Kazhdan-Lusztig representations of the symmetric group.
    Matthew L Housley*, Brigham Young University
    (1075-22-240)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Equivariant K-theory of generalized Hecke algebras and affine Hecke algebras.
    J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
    (1075-20-103)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Analysis, I
  Room 310, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Marian Bocea, Loyola University Chicago mbocea@luc.edu
  Mihai Mihailescu, University of Craiova Romania mmihailes@yahoo.com
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the problem of characterizing the minimizers of the Aviles Giga functional.
    Andrew Lorent*, University of Cincinnati
    (1075-49-61)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On instabilities of smooth phase boundaries in non-linearly elastic solids.
    Yury Grabovsky*, Temple University
    Vladislav A Kucher, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Russia
    Lev Truskinovsky, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    (1075-74-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A variational approach for exposure bracketed images.
    Marcelo Bertalmío, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
    Stacey Levine*, Duquesne University
    (1075-49-210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparison of variational models for denoising of images.
    Rustum Choksi, McGill University, Montreal (CA)
    Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
    Barbara Zwicknagl*, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
    (1075-49-170)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimal three-material wheel assemblage of conducting and elastic composites.
    Andrej Cherkaev*, Department of mathematics, University of Utah
    (1075-35-229)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric, Combinatorial, and Computational Group Theory, I
  Room 350, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
  Eric Swenson, Brigham Young University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On restricting free factors in relatively free groups.
    Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
    Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
    (1075-20-142)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms of graph products.
    Kim Ruane*, Tufts Univeristy
    Adam Piggott, Bucknell University
    Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
    (1075-20-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the spectrum and length spectrum of hyperbolic manifolds.
    Dubi Kelmer*, Boston College
    (1075-22-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local topology of boundaries for CAT(0) spaces with isolated flats.
    Chris Hruska*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
    Kim Ruane, Tufts University
    (1075-20-242)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bounding surface actions on Gromov-hyperbolic spaces.
    Josh Barnard*, University of South Alabama
    (1075-20-172)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Algebra, I
  Room 225, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University yakimov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The noetherian property for naive blow-up algebras in positive characteristic.
    Boris Adamczewski, Universite de Lyon
    Jason P Bell*, Simon Fraser University
    (1075-16-148)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quotients of Koszul algebras and 2-d-determined algebras.
    Thomas Cassidy*, Bucknell University
    Christopher Lee Phan, Bucknell University
    (1075-16-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Support varieties and cohomology for modules over quantum groups.
    Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
    (1075-20-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    p-Lie algebras and modules of constant Jordan type.
    Eric M Friedlander, Northwestern/University of Southern California
    Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
    (1075-16-107)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Elementary subalgebras of Lie algebras.
    Eric M. Friedlander*, University of Souther California
    Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
    (1075-17-124)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 121, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah defernex@math.utah.edu
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah hacon@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Local zeta functions of hyperplane arrangements.
    Nero Budur*, University of Notre Dame
    (1075-14-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigid curves on $\overline{M}_{0,n}$ and arithmetic breaks.
    Ana-Maria Castravet*, Ohio State University
    Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1075-14-150)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 340, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Zach Teitler, Boise State University zteitler@boisestate.edu
  Jim Wolper, Idaho State University wolpjame@isu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Degenerations of irrational Toric varieties.
    Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
    Elisa Postinghel, CMA, University of Oslo
    Nelly Villamizar, CMA, University of Oslo
    (1075-14-199)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wachspress varieties.
    Corey F Irving*, Texas A&M University
    (1075-14-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The monotone secant conjecture in the real Schubert calculus.
    Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Texas A&M University
    Nickolas Hein, Texas A&M University
    Christopher J. Hillar, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Abraham Martin del Campo*, Texas A&M University
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    Zach Teitler, Boise State University
    (1075-14-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Beyond the Shapiro conjecture and Eremenko-Gabrielov lower bounds.
    Jonathan Hauenstein, Texas A&M University
    Nickolas Hein*, Texas A&M University
    Abraham Martin del Campo, Texas A&M University
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    James Ruffo, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    Zach Teitler, Boise State University
    (1075-14-155)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, I
  Room 110, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University Zhi-Qiang.Wang@usu.edu
  Nghiem Nguyen, Utah State University nghiem.nguyen@usu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Well-posedness of boundary-value problems for the linear Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation.
    Vishal Vasan*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    Bernard Deconinck, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1075-35-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Well-posedness for systems of coupled BBM-equations.
    Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis
    Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1075-35-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Comparison between Boussinesq system and KP equation.
    Min Chen*, Purdue University
    (1075-35-114)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Understanding Bio-fluids via Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, I
  Room 333, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Christel Hohenegger, University of Utah choheneg@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hydrodynamic interactions of hyperactivated sperm.
    Sarah D Olson*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Lisa J Fauci, Tulane University
    (1075-76-79)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Biological and bio-inspired locomotion in viscous fluids: from spermatozoa to synthetic microswimmers.
    On Shun Pak*, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego
    Saverio Eric Spagnolie, Division of Engineering, Brown University
    Wei Gao, Department of Nanoengineering, University of California San Diego
    Joseph Wang, Department of Nanoengineering, University of California San Diego
    Eric Lauga, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
    (1075-92-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiscale computation of Cytoskeleton mechanics.
    Jennifer J. Young*, Rice University
    Sorin Mitran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1075-92-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A stochastic multiscale model of fibrinolysis.
    Brittany E. Bannish*, University of Utah
    Aaron L. Fogelson, University of Utah
    James P. Keener, University of Utah
    (1075-92-118)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Metamaterials: High contrast composites with unusual properties.
  Room 335, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Graeme Milton*, University of Utah
  (1075-35-01)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Dispersive partial differential equations at critical regularity.
  Room 335, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Monica Visan*, University of California Los Angeles
  (1075-35-02)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 121, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah defernex@math.utah.edu
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah hacon@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Open orbifold GW invariants.
    Renzo Cavalieri*, Colorado State University
    Dustin Ross, Colorado State University
    (1075-14-82)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bogomolov-type inequalities in higher dimension.
    Emanuele Macri*, Ohio State University
    (1075-14-53)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The geometry of the ball quotient model of the moduli space of genus four curves.
    S. Casalaina-Martin*, University of Colorado
    (1075-14-48)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Analysis, II
  Room 310, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Marian Bocea, Loyola University Chicago mbocea@luc.edu
  Mihai Mihailescu, University of Craiova Romania mmihailes@yahoo.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Advances in multiscale modeling of grain growth in polycrystals.
    Maria Emelianenko*, George Mason University
    (1075-35-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The near-cloak defeats the anti-cloak.
    Daniel T Onofrei*, University of Houston
    Andrew Thaler, University of Utah
    (1075-78-177)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analytical aspects in the theory of free liquid fibers and sheets.
    Thomas Hagen*, The University of Memphis
    (1075-76-169)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Regularity for a model of collisionless plasma in low dimension.
    Stephen Pankavich*, United States Naval Academy
    (1075-35-238)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Differential Equations with Constraints.
    Nicolae Tarfulea*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1075-35-78)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, II
  Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the geometry of a moving singularity.
    Leonardo Traversoni*, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa)
    (1075-18-106)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Particle lag instability.
    Peter Vorobieff*, The University of New Mexico
    Michael Anderson, The University of New Mexico
    Joseph Conroy, The University of New Mexico
    Ross White, The University of New Mexico
    Patrick Wayne, The University of New Mexico
    Sanjay Kumar, The University of Texas - Brownsville
    C. Randall Truman, The University of New Mexico
    (1075-76-228)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The geometry of the Taylor problem in plasma physics.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1075-53-209)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Recent results in fluid mechanics.
    Robert M Owczarek*, Enfitek, Inc. and University of New Mexico
    (1075-76-191)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Spherical geometry of $\mathcal{D}^s(M)/\mathcal{D}^s_\mu(M)$.
    Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
    (1075-58-49)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Celestial and Geometric Mechanics, II
  Room 208, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Lennard Bakker, Brigham Young University bakker@math.byu.edu
  Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symbolic dynamics in a restricted planar 4-body problem.
    Antonio Garcia*, UAM-I
    Martha Alvarez, UAM-I
    (1075-37-117)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hamilton-Jacobi theory of orthogonal separation of variables on spaces of constant curvature.
    Roman Smirnov*, Dalhousie University
    Ray McLenaghan, University of Waterloo
    Caroline Cochrane, Dalhousie University
    (1075-53-219)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Relative equilibria with one or two concentric polygons in the N-vortex problem.
    Ernesto A Lacomba*, University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
    Martin Celli, University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
    Ernesto Pérez-Chavela, University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
    (1075-37-227)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 320, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Chin-Yi Jean Chan, Central Michigan University chan1cj@cmich.edu
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity bounds for graph ideals.
    Craig Huneke*, University of Kansas
    Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
    Jay Schweig, University of Kansas
    (1075-13-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay Toric Rings Arising from Finite Graphs.
    Augustine B O'Keefe*, Tulane University
    Huy TÃ i HÃ, Tulane University
    (1075-13-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Betti numbers of affine monomial curves.
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri, Columbia.
    (1075-13-34)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic growth of saturated powers and epsilon multiplicity.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky*, Dept. Math., Univ. Missouri
    (1075-13-33)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Ideals with large projective dimension and Stillman's question.
    Jesse Beder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jason McCullough*, University of California, Riverside
    Luis Nunez-Betancourt, University of Michigan
    Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska
    Bart Snapp, Ohio State University
    Branden Stone, University of Kansas
    (1075-13-136)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Tautological part of $K$-theory of projective toric varieties.
    Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University
    (1075-14-149)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 340, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Zach Teitler, Boise State University zteitler@boisestate.edu
  Jim Wolper, Idaho State University wolpjame@isu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Implicitization of surfaces via geometric tropicalization.
    Maria Angelica Cueto*, Columbia University
    (1075-14-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $\mu$-Basis of rational space curves of type (1; 1; d-2) and minimal generators for the associated Rees algebra.
    Haohao Wang*, Southeast Missouri State University
    (1075-14-17)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classification of 7 and 8 dimensional soliton Nilpotent Lie algebras.
    Hulya Kadioglu*, Idaho Falls, ID
    Tracy L. Payne, Idaho State University
    (1075-51-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Equation of genur 3 hyperelliptic curves over their minimal field of definition.
    Valmira Hoxha*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48386.
    (1075-14-11)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Vanishing theta nulls of algebraic curves.
    Tony Shaska*, Oakland University
    (1075-14-12)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Theta functions with half-integer rational characteristics for genus three curves.
    Lubjana Beshaj*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48386.
    (1075-14-10)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Complex and Random Environments, I
  Room 140, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  David Dobson, University of Utah
  Peijun Li, Purdue University lipeijun@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Efficient and stable spectral methods for Scoustic and electromagnetic scattering.
    Jie Shen*, Purdue University
    (1075-65-247)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Time-domain finite element modeling of wave propagation in metamaterials.
    Jichun Li*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1075-65-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Active manipulation of fields.
    Daniel Onofrei*, University of Houston
    Kui Ren, UT Austin
    (1075-78-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Enhance approximate cloaking by SH and FSH lining.
    Hongyu Liu*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (1075-78-154)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some mathematical problems in a neoclassical theory of electric charges.
    Alexander Figotin*, University of California at Irvine
    (1075-78-51)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Scattering and resonances of thin high contrast dielectric structures.
    Shari Moskow*, Drexel University
    (1075-35-204)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, II
  Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
  Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
  Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of nilsolitons.
    Tracy L. Payne*, Idaho State University
    (1075-53-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A metric hodge theory for Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded above.
    Nathan Smale*, University of Utah
    (1075-58-139)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Comparison theorems, geometric flows, and conservation laws in $p$-harmonic geometry.
    Shihshu Walter Wei*, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Mathematics, Norman, OK 73019, U.S.A.
    (1075-53-26)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Dispersive Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 320, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa xiaozhang@math.uiowa.edu
  Monica Visan, University of California Los Angeles
  Betsy Stovall, University of California Los Angeles
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The energy-critical NLS in the Torus and related spaces.
    Benoit Pausader*, CIMS, NYU
    (1075-35-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the uniqueness of solutions to the 3D periodic Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy.
    Vedran Sohinger*, University of Pennsylvania
    Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics Dept.
    (1075-35-86)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A remark on the two dimensional water wave problem with surface tension.
    Markus Keel, Department of Mathematics, The university of Minnesota
    Shuanglin Shao*, Department of Mathematics, The university of Kansas
    (1075-35-93)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Hypergeometric Functions and Differential Equations, II
  Room 323, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Laura F. Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christine Berkesch, Stockholm University cberkesc@math.su.se
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On analytic complexity of special functions.
    Timur Sadykov*, Russian State University of Trade and Economics, Moscow, Russia
    (1075-30-151)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Slopes for Hypergeometric Functions.
    Steven Sperber*, University of Minnesota
    (1075-14-102)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    K3 modular parametrization and Calabi-Yau threefold variations.
    Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri, St. Louis
    Charles F. Doran*, University of Alberta
    Jacob Lewis, University of Vienna
    Andrey Novoseltsev, University of Alberta
    (1075-14-207)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems and Homogenization, II
  Room 130, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Elena Cherkaev, University of Utah elena@math.utah.edu
  Fernando Guevara Vasquez, University of Utah fguevara@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Resistor networks and optimal grids for electrical impedance tomography with partial boundary measurements.
    Alexander V Mamonov*, University of Texas at Austin
    Liliana Borcea, Rice University
    Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger Doll Research Center
    Fernando Guevara Vasquez, University of Utah
    (1075-65-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solution of the time-domain inverse resistivity problem in the model reduction framework.
    Mikhail Y Zaslavsky*, Schlumberger-Doll Research
    Vladimir L Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research
    Valeria Simoncini, University of Bologna, Italy
    (1075-65-195)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conductivity reconstruction using hybrid modalities with synthetic focusing.
    Leonid Kunyansky*, University of Arizona
    (1075-35-57)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some mathematical problems of thermoacoustic tomography.
    Linh V Nguyen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho
    (1075-35-116)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modeling polarization-resolved measurements of light scattered by tissues.
    Arnold D Kim*, University of California, Merced
    (1075-78-44)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Algebra, II
  Room 225, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University yakimov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Values of Frobenius-Schur indicators for Hopf algebras.
    M. Susan Montgomery*, University of Southern California
    (1075-16-73)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the integrality of the Frobenius Schur indicators of tensor categories.
    Miodrag Cristian Iovanov*, University of Southern California and University of Bucharest
    Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
    (1075-20-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lie-Delta-algebras.
    James J Zhang*, University of Washington
    (1075-16-27)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum matrices by paths.
    Karel Casteels*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1075-16-220)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Torus-invariant prime spectrum of an affine quantum nilpotent Lie algebra.
    Christopher R. Nowlin*, Laurel, MD
    (1075-16-132)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The FRT-Construction via quantum Affine algebras and smash products.
    Garrett Johnson*, North Carolina State University
    Chris Nowlin, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1075-17-74)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, II
  Room 110, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University Zhi-Qiang.Wang@usu.edu
  Nghiem Nguyen, Utah State University nghiem.nguyen@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stability of solitary waves for a KdV-NLS system.
    John Albert*, University of Oklahoma
    Santosh Bhattarai, University of Oklahoma
    (1075-35-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Hirota-Satsuma equation as a model for shallow water waves.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1075-76-144)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Kinematics & Stability of Solutions to the Serre Equations.
    John Carter*, Seattle University
    Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
    (1075-35-211)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global regularity for the 2D anisotropic Boussinesq equations with vertical dissipation.
    Chongsheng Cao, Florida International University
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1075-35-52)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Numerical Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 120, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
  Shue-Sum Chow, Brigham Young University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A reduced basis method for multiple electromagnetic scattering.
    Mahadevan Ganesh*, Colorado School of Mines
    (1075-35-92)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A leap-frog discontinuous Galerkin method for the time-domain Maxwell's equations in metamaterials.
    Jichun Li, Dept of mathematical sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Jiajia Wang*, Dept of mathematical sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Eric Machorro, National Security Technologies, LLC, P.O. Box 98521, MS NLV 070, Las Vegas, NV 89193-8521
    (1075-65-129)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Numerical approximation of scalar conservation law with hysteresis, relaxation, and double-porosity.
    Malgorzata Peszynska*, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University
    (1075-65-175)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Well-balanced positivity preserving central-upwind scheme on triangular grids for the Saint-Venant system.
    Yekaterina Epshteyn*, University of Utah
    S. Bryson, NASA Ames Research Center
    A. Kurganov, Tulane University
    G. Petrova, Texas A&M University
    (1075-65-128)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Reductive Groups and Hecke Algebras, II
  Room 219, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Dan Ciubotaru, University of Utah ciubo@math.utah.edu
  Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University krilcath@isu.edu
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Meromorphic continuation of Kloosterman-Selberg Zeta functions associated to non-compact finite volume rank 1 symmetric spaces.
    Nolan Wallach*, University of California, San Diego
    Roberto Miatello, National University of Cordoba
    (1075-11-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    K-orbits on the flag variety and the geometry of Gelfand-Zeitlin fibers.
    Mark Colarusso*, Idaho State University
    Sam Evens, University of Notre Dame
    (1075-22-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classic and mirabolic Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence for partial flags.
    Daniele Rosso*, The University of Chicago
    (1075-14-09)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Graham's variety and perverse sheaves on the Nilpotent cone.
    Amber Russell*, Louisiana State University
    (1075-22-156)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lie orbifold algebras and graded Hecke algebras.
    Anne V. Shepler*, Mathematics Department, University of North Texas, Texas
    Sarah Witherspoon, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, Texas
    (1075-16-222)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the local Langlands correspondence of DeBacker/Reeder for unramified U(3).
    Moshe Adrian*, University of Utah
    (1075-22-120)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A new twist in the L-packet tale.
    Stephen DeBacker*, University of Michigan
    Loren Spice, Texas Christian University
    (1075-22-248)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Understanding Bio-fluids via Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, II
  Room 333, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Christel Hohenegger, University of Utah choheneg@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A multiscale model of electrical activity in cardiac tissue.
    Joyce T. Lin*, University of Utah
    James P. Keener, University of Utah
    (1075-92-166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Non-linear signatures of entangled polymer solutions in active microbead rheology.
    Paula Andrea Vasquez*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    M Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Jeremy Cribb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Richard Superfine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1075-92-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Ring-waves as a mass transport mechanism in air-driven core-annular flow.
    H. Reed Ogrosky*, University of North Carolina
    Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina
    M. Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina
    Long Lee, University of Wyoming
    John Mellnik, University of North Carolina
    Jeffrey Olander, University of North Carolina
    (1075-76-237)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Entrapment phenomena of buoyant fluids passing through sharply stratified density transitions.
    Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    Claudia Falcon, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    Zhi Lin, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
    Richard McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    Keith Mertens*, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    David Nenon, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    Casey Smith, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    Bailey Watson, University of North Carolina, Mathematics
    Brian White, University of North Carolina, Marine Sciences
    (1075-76-236)
• Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 308, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Chairs:
  Violeta Vasilevska, Utah Valley University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some problems of unique continuation arising in the study of geometric evolution equations.
    Brett Kotschwar*, Arizona State University
    (1075-53-30)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Erdos-Mordell inequality in the Minkowski plane.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1075-52-19)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Automorphisms of simple Lie algebras G(n) over GF(2).
    Young Jo Kwak*, Colorado
    (1075-17-159)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Comparison of dualizing complexes.
    Changlong Zhong*, University of Southern California
    (1075-14-07)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $\ast-$Lie ideals and generalized derivations on prime rings.
    Radwan M Alomary*, AMU, aligarh, India
    (1075-13-05)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Shape $m_{simpl}$ fibrators among products of Hopfian manifolds.
    Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley University
    (1075-57-239)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the BV-Norm convergence of a piecewise linear projection method for Markov operators.
    J. Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    N. Rhee, University of Missouri atKansas City
    (1075-65-06)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Enumerating strata in an enhanced quiver variety.
    Benjamin F Jones*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (1075-20-196)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximate solution for groundwater flows.
    Aleksey S Telyakovskiy*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1075-76-233)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Building a safe cryptographic code.
    Lavinia Corina Ciungu*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1075-94-249)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Password security.
    Cori Bryant*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Lavinia Ciungu, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1075-94-250)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Simultaneous binary collisions for the collinear four-body problem.
    Tiancheng Ouyang*, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
    Duokui Yan, School of Mathematics and System Sciences , Beihong University, Beijing, China
    (1075-37-251)

Sunday October 23, 2011

• Sunday October 23, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Room 228, JWB John Widtsoe Building
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Mathematics Department Office Room 233, JWB John Widtsoe Building
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Analysis, III
  Room 310, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Marian Bocea, Loyola University Chicago mbocea@luc.edu
  Mihai Mihailescu, University of Craiova Romania mmihailes@yahoo.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces and applications.
    Marian Bocea*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1075-35-244)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A variational approximation scheme for radial polyconvex elasticity that excludes interpenetration of matter.
    Alexey Miroshnikov*, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Mathematics
    Athanasios Tzavaras, University of Crete, Department of Applied Mathematics
    (1075-74-13)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A maximum principle connected with eigenvalue problems involving variable exponents.
    Mihai Mihailescu*, University of Craiova
    (1075-35-152)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A variational characterization of the effective yield set for ionic polycrystals.
    Farhod Abdullayev*, North Dakota State University
    (1075-49-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exploring sub-moment sequences and solutions to sub-moment problems.
    Saroj Aryal*, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82072
    Farhad Jafari, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82072
    (1075-46-15)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, III
  Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computability theoretic complexity of isomorphisms of countable structures.
    Valentina Harizanov*, George Washington University
    (1075-03-153)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Complete Coverage Probability Via Homology.
    Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
    Jeff Pullen*, Tulane University
    (1075-55-110)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Third Power Association In Finite semifields.
    G. P. Wene*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle,San Antonio, Texas 78249-0624
    (1075-17-245)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Graphs and non-associative algebra.
    Liudmila Sabinina*, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico
    (1075-20-181)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized Bruck loops related to non-gyrocommutative gyrogroups and generalized symmetric spaces as the underlying geometry.
    Larissa Sbitneva*, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
    (1075-08-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The spinor structure of the Apollonian disk packing.
    Jerzy Kocik*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
    (1075-51-200)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Celestial and Geometric Mechanics, III
  Room 208, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Lennard Bakker, Brigham Young University bakker@math.byu.edu
  Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Simple Existence Proof of the Schubart Periodic Orbit with Arbitrary Masses.
    Duokui Yan*, Beihang University, Beijing, China
    (1075-37-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Reinterpretation of regularization of collisions through real algebraic geometry.
    Lennard F Bakker*, Brigham Young University
    (1075-70-174)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relative equilibria in the four vortex problem with two pairs of equal vorticities.
    Manuele Santoprete*, Wilfrid Laurier University
    Marshall Hampton, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    Gareth Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
    (1075-70-28)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 320, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Chin-Yi Jean Chan, Central Michigan University chan1cj@cmich.edu
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A generalization of Lyubeznik numbers.
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Michigan
    Emily E. Witt*, University of Minnesota
    (1075-13-230)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Valuation semigroups of two dimensional local rings.
    Vinh An Pham*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Steven Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1075-13-168)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimal primes of ideals arising from conditional independence statements.
    Amelia Taylor*, Colorado College
    Irena Swanson, Reed College
    (1075-13-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    2 x 2 permanental ideals of hypermatrices.
    Julia Porcino, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
    Irena Swanson*, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
    (1075-13-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On $F$-purity at the $F$-pure threshold.
    Daniel J Hernández*, University of Minnesota
    (1075-13-235)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimal reductions and balanced ideals.
    Louiza Fouli*, New Mexico State University
    (1075-13-147)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 340, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Zach Teitler, Boise State University zteitler@boisestate.edu
  Jim Wolper, Idaho State University wolpjame@isu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tensor complexes.
    Christine Berkesch*, Duke University
    Daniel Erman, University of Michigan
    Manoj Kummini, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    Steven V Sam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1075-13-45)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Toward a salmon conjecture.
    Luke Oeding*, University of California, Berkeley
    Daniel J Bates, Colorado State Univesity
    (1075-14-95)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New examples of defective secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties.
    Hirotachi Abo*, University of Idaho
    Maria Chiara Brambilla, Università Politecnica delle Marche
    (1075-14-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strong nonnegativity and sums of squares.
    Mohamed Omar*, UC Davis & Caltech
    Brian Osserman, UC Davis
    (1075-14-202)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constructing Markov bases for hypergraphs.
    Sonja Petrovic*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1075-13-217)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computing integral asymptotics using toric blow-ups of ideals.
    Shaowei Lin*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1075-14-234)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Complex and Random Environments, II
  Room 140, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  David Dobson, University of Utah
  Peijun Li, Purdue University lipeijun@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Matrix Pade approximants of the spectral function of composites.
    Elena Cherkaev*, University of Utah, Department of Mathematics
    (1075-65-231)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A coupled BEM and FEM for the interior transmission problem.
    George Hsiao, University of Delaware
    Fengshan Liu, Delaware State University
    Jiguang Sun*, Delaware State University
    Liwei Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1075-65-81)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Active exterior cloaking for the Helmholtz equation.
    Fernando Guevara Vasquez*, Mathematics Department, University of Utah
    Graeme W. Milton, Mathematics Department, University of Utah
    Daniel Onofrei, Mathematics Department, University of Houston
    (1075-35-76)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On hp-adaptive finite element methods for time-harmonic Maxwell's equations.
    X. Jiang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    L. Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    W. Zheng*, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1075-65-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sea ice and the climate system.
    Kenneth M. Golden*, University of Utah, Department of Mathematics
    (1075-86-213)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, III
  Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
  Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
  Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A fully non-linear flow equation on the sphere and Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities.
    Pengfei Guan, McGill University
    Junfang Li*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1075-35-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gradient Ricci solitons.
    Ovidiu Munteanu*, Columbia University
    (1075-53-25)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flows to find (approximate) Riemann mappings.
    David Alan Glickenstein*, University of Arizona
    (1075-51-62)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric, Combinatorial, and Computational Group Theory, II
  Room 350, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
  Eric Swenson, Brigham Young University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The fundamental group at infinity.
    Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY Binghamton)
    (1075-20-223)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A decade of using non-commutative groups in cryptography.
    Delaram Kahrobaei*, City University of New York, CUNY Graduate Center and City Tech
    (1075-20-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some open questions on fundamental groups of low-dimensional wild spaces.
    Gregory R Conner*, Brigham Young University Department of Mathematics
    (1075-55-214)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Schreier graphs and Schreier dynamical system of the action of Thompson's group $F$ on the Cantor set.
    Dmytro M Savchuk*, Binghamton University
    (1075-20-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On hyperbolic surface subgroups in right-angled Artin groups.
    Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
    (1075-20-162)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conjectural normal form for elements of Coxeter groups.
    Tom Edgar*, Pacific Lutheran University
    (1075-20-91)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Dispersive Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 320, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa xiaozhang@math.uiowa.edu
  Monica Visan, University of California Los Angeles
  Betsy Stovall, University of California Los Angeles
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Variations on the Carleson-Hunt theorem.
    Richard L Oberlin*, Louisiana State University
    (1075-42-135)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A variable coefficient Wolff circular maximal function.
    Joshua Zahl*, UCLA
    (1075-42-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fractional Poincare and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for measure spaces.
    Philip T Gressman*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1075-28-43)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Hypergeometric Functions and Differential Equations, III
  Room 323, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Laura F. Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christine Berkesch, Stockholm University cberkesc@math.su.se
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discriminant coamoebas in dimension 2 via homology.
    Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
    Mikael Passare, Stockholms Universitet
    (1075-14-201)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discriminant Coamoebas.
    Mounir Nisse*, Texas A&M University
    Maurice Rojas, Texas A&M University
    Korben Rusek, Texas A&M University
    (1075-14-89)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Algebra, III
  Room 225, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University yakimov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Derived representation schemes and cyclic homology.
    Yuri Berest*, Cornell University
    Ajay Ramadoss, ETH, Zurich
    (1075-18-221)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A geometric realization of noncommutative resolutions.
    Charlie R. Beil*, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University
    (1075-14-203)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Irreducible components of module varieties.
    Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1075-16-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonsplit module extensions over the algebra of one-sided inverse of $k[x]$.
    Linhong Wang*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (1075-16-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Skein algebras of marked surfaces.
    Gregory P Muller*, Louisiana State University
    (1075-16-187)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $\mathbb{Z}$-graded simple algebras.
    Daniel Rogalski*, UCSD
    Jason Bell, Simon Fraser University
    (1075-16-171)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Reductive Groups and Hecke Algebras, III
  Room 219, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Dan Ciubotaru, University of Utah ciubo@math.utah.edu
  Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University krilcath@isu.edu
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Unitary Principal Series of $SO(n+1,n)$.
    Annegret Paul*, Western Michigan University
    (1075-22-215)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometry and unitarity.
    Dragan Milicic*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1075-22-226)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representations of the degenerate affine Hecke-Clifford superalgebra.
    David Hill, University of Virginia
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    Joshua Sussan, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    (1075-16-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Graded Hecke algebras and reflection length versus codimension.
    Briana Foster-Greenwood*, University of North Texas
    (1075-05-164)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lefschetz functors for the metaplectic group.
    B Trahan*, University of Utah
    (1075-22-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unipotent representations for Sp(p,q) and O*(n).
    Dan Barbasch*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    Peter Trapa, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1075-22-32)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 121, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah defernex@math.utah.edu
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah hacon@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finiteness of K3 surfaces and the Tate conjecture.
    Max Lieblich*, University of Washington
    Davesh Maulik, Columbia University
    Andrew Snowden, MIT
    (1075-14-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jacobian discrepancies and rational singularities.
    Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
    Roi Docampo*, University of Utah
    (1075-14-90)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, III
  Room 110, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University Zhi-Qiang.Wang@usu.edu
  Nghiem Nguyen, Utah State University nghiem.nguyen@usu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A dual-Petrov-Galerkin method for extended fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries type equations.
    Netra P Khanal*, The University of Tampa
    (1075-35-96)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Small solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations near first excited states.
    Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto Univeristy
    Tuoc Van Phan*, UNIVERISTY OF TENNESSEE
    Tai-Peng Tsai, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    (1075-35-42)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiple Solitary Wave Solutions of Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems.
    Rushun Tian*, Utah State University
    Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University
    (1075-35-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Orbital stability of solitary waves of a 3-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger system.
    Nghiem V. Nguyen*, Utah State University
    Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University
    (1075-35-68)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The future of combinatorial bijections.
  Room 335, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Igor Pak*, University of California Los Angeles
  (1075-05-03)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Gap theorems on Kähler manifolds.
  Room 335, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Lei Ni*, University of California San Diego
  (1075-53-04)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, IV
  Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Category theory for inferring the shape of a light source from an optimized model of its shadow.
    Brian G Stafford*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,NM
    (1075-68-218)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Turning Bayesian model averaging into Bayesian model combination.
    James L Carroll*, LANL
    (1075-60-101)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reconstructing tilted, axis-symmetric objects from radiographs.
    Thomas A Beery*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1075-62-104)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalization of inverse Abel transform for shifted reconstruction axis.
    Hanna E Makaruk*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    Robert M. Owczarek, Enfitek Inc.
    (1075-68-18)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Celestial and Geometric Mechanics, IV
  Room 208, JWB John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Lennard Bakker, Brigham Young University bakker@math.byu.edu
  Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symmetric mechanical systems with configuration space isotropy.
    Cristina Stoica*, Wlifrid Laurier University, Canada
    (1075-70-192)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simultaneous binary collisions for the collinear four-body problem.
    Tiancheng Ouyang*, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
    Duokui Yan, School of Mathematics and System Sciences , Beihong University, Beijing, China
    (1075-37-185)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
  Room 320, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Chin-Yi Jean Chan, Central Michigan University chan1cj@cmich.edu
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Normal Non-Cohen-Macaulay Rings.
    Paul C Roberts*, University of Utah
    (1075-13-56)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graded $F$-modules and local cohomology.
    Yi Zhang*, University of Minnesota
    (1075-13-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Target elements and test ideals.
    Mel Hochster, University of Michigan
    Wenliang Zhang*, University of Michigan
    (1075-13-194)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Test ideals via a single alteration and discreteness and rationality of $F$-jumping numbers.
    Karl Schwede, The Pennsylvania State University
    Kevin Tucker*, Princeton University
    Wenliang Zhang, University of Michigan
    (1075-13-186)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cartier modules on toric varieties.
    Jen-Chieh Hsiao, Purdue University
    Karl Schwede*, The Pennsylvania State University
    Wenliang Zhang, University of Michigan
    (1075-13-41)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Expected dimension versus actual dimension.
    Sandra Spiroff*, University of Mississippi
    (1075-13-176)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 340, AEB Alfred Emery Building
  Organizers:
  Zach Teitler, Boise State University zteitler@boisestate.edu
  Jim Wolper, Idaho State University wolpjame@isu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Certifying solutions to systems of polynomial-exponential equations.
    Jonathan D Hauenstein*, Texas A&M University
    Viktor Levandovskyy, RWTH Aachen University
    (1075-65-67)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some computational problems using Riemann Theta functions in sage.
    Chris Swierczewski*, University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics
    (1075-14-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A numerical-symbolic algorithm for computing the geometric genus of a curve.
    Dan Bates*, Colorado State University
    Chris Peterson, Colorado State University
    Andrew Sommese, University of Notre Dame
    Charles Wampler, General Motors Research and Development
    (1075-14-134)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Chern numbers of algebraic varieties.
    Dan Bates, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University
    David Eklund, Dept of Mathematics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
    Chris Peterson*, Dept of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
    (1075-14-184)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics, IV
  Room 215, LCB LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Andrejs Treibergs, University of Utah Salt Lake City treiberg@math.utah.edu
  Lei Ni, University of California San Diego lni@mathl.ucsd.edu
  Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University kotschwar@math.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Anisotropic Surface Energy.
    Bennett Palmer*, Idaho State University
    (1075-53-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On potential function of gradient steady Ricci solitons.
    Peng Wu*, University of California, Santa Barbara.
    (1075-53-24)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Dirichlet problem for the curve shortening flow in convex domains.
    Paul T. Allen*, Lewis & Clark College
    K Tsukahara, Lewis & Clark College
    A Layne, University of Oregon
    (1075-53-14)
• Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Dispersive Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 320, JTB James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa xiaozhang@math.uiowa.edu
  Monica Visan, University of California Los Angeles
  Betsy Stovall, University of California Los Angeles
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A quantitative Frobenius theorem.
    Brian T Street*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1075-51-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On finite time blowup solutions to certain nonlinear Klein--Gordon equations.
    Rowan Killip, UCLA
    Betsy Stovall*, UCLA
    Monica Visan, UCLA
    (1075-35-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conditional global regularity of Schrödinger maps: sub-threshold dispersed energy.
    Paul Smith*, UC Berkeley
    (1075-35-182)

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